The Apex Quartet is a professional string quartet based in the Dorset area for weddings & events.
The string quartet is now well established as one of the premier string groups in the South, performing for weddings, parties, receptions, concerts & corporate events. The musicians have a wealth of experience having worked in all areas of the music business from classical chamber music, symphony orchestras, theatres, cruises, recording studio work and pop tours.
Members of the quartet have played with The Royal Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony & Auckland Chamber Orchestras. They have recorded and worked with Pop acts such as Take That!, Jamiroquai, Pet Shop Boys, Girls Aloud & One Direction.
Corporate clients include: HSBC, John Lewis, FORD, RICS & Carnival Cruises
Weddings are a major part of the quartet’s work and many clients are attracted to this group because of their eclectic repertoire. Music includes traditional wedding classical music such as Pachelbel Canon in D, Handel’s Water Music & Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Mendelssohn wedding March, Wagner’s Bridal Chorus. Other classics feature from Bach, Elgar, Mozart, Purcell, Tchaikovsky & Vivaldi of course.
There is a large selection of Pop arrangements with music from ABBA to Wet Wet Wet. Popular music for weddings here includes Beyonce Crazy In Love, Bruno Mars- Marry You, Christina Perri- A Thousand years, Ed Sheeran – Perfect, Jason Mraz- I’m Yours, Take That! – Greatest Day etc.
Film & TV theme music as well as Show Tunes and light jazz complete the eclectic mix of music on offer.
Audio Samples
SELECT A TRACK
- 1. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba 0:39
- 2. Vivaldi Spring 0:36
- 3. Moondance 0:36
- 4. Pachelbel Canon 0:43
- 5. Your Song 0:36
Set list / Repertoire
Classical
Bach
Gavotte
Arioso
Bouree
Jesu Joy
Air on G String
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Ave Maria
Boccherini Minuet
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Boyce Symphony No. 4
Clarke Trumpet Voluntary
Corelli Christmas Concerto
Debussy Clair de LuneGirl with the Flaxen Hair
Delibes Flower Duet from Lakme
Elgar Salut d’amour
Chanson de Matin,
Chanson de Nuit
Nimrod (Enigma Variations)
Faure Dolly SuitePavane
Grieg Norwegian Dance
Handel
Hornpipe from Water Music
Air from the Water Music
Arrival of Queen of Sheba
Where’er You Walk
Haydn Quartet Op 64 No 5, The Bird
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet Meditation from Thais
Mendelssohn
Wedding March
Adagio from Organ Sonata No 2
Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Divertimenti
Elvira Madigan
Allelujah (Exultate Jubilate)
Pachelbel
Canon in D
Gigue
Purcell
Two Rondeaux
Trumpet Tune
Ravel
Bolero
Pavane
Saint Saens The Swan
Sartori
Con the Partiro
Time to say Goodbye
Schumann Thou Ring On My Finger
Strauss
Pizzicato Polka
Numerous Waltzes
Tchaikovsky Waltz from Serenade to Strings
Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
A Minor Double Violin Concerto
Wagner Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
Pop
ABBA Mama Mia
Adele
Make you feel my Love
Skyfall
Rolling in the deep
Aerosmith I don’t wanna miss a thing
American authors Best Day of my life
Andy Williams Music to watch girls by
Barbra Streisand What Kind of Fool
Beach Boys God only knows
Bette Midler
The Rose
Wind beneath my wings
Beyonce Crazy in Love
Billy Joel
She’s always a Woman
Just the way you are
Brian Wilson Wouldn’t it be nice
Bruno Mars
Marry you
Amazing just the way you are
Christina Perry A thousand years
Clean Bandit No place I’d rather be
Coldplay
Viva la Vida
Paradise
Clocks
Fix you
Sky full of stars
Daft Punk Get Lucky
Des’ree Kissing You
Ed Sheeran
Lego House,
Perfect
Thinking out loud
Elbow One day like this
Ellie Goulding How long will you love me
Elton John Your Song
Elvis Presley Can’t help falling in Love
Emily Sandé Next to me
Etta James At Last
Eva Cassidy Songbird
Florence and the machine You’ve got the love
Goo Goo Dolles Iris
Green Day Holiday
Guns’n’Roses November Rain
Human League Together in electric dreams
Jackie Wilson Higher and higher
James Blunt You’re Beautiful
Jason Mraz I’m Yours
Joe Cocker You are so beautiful
John Denver Annie’s Song
John Legend All of me
Journey Don’t stop believing
Keane Somewhere only we know
Kelly Clarkson A moment like this
Kings of Leon Use Somebody
Kraftwerk The Model
Kretzmer She
Lawrence/Trent Beyond the Sea
Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love
Lifehouse You and me
McFly It’s all about you
Michael Bublé Everything
Nina Simone Feelin’ good
Nirvana Smells like teen spirit
Norah Jones I’ve got to see you again
Oasis Whatever Wonderwall
Pharrell Williams Happy
Queen
Crazy little thing called love
Bohemian Rhapsody
REM Nightswimming
Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
Rihanna We found love
Ronan Keeting When you say nothing at all
Sam Smith Latch
Savage Garden Truly, Madly, Deeply
Shania Twain From this moment on
Sia Furler Chandelier
Sigur Rós Hoppipolla
Snow Patrol Chasing cars
Stevie Wonder
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Isn’t she lovely
Sting Fields of Gold
Take That
Greatest Day
Shine
Taylor Swift Love story
The Beach Boys God only knows
The Lumineers Ho Hey
The Verve Bittersweet Symphony
Van Morriso Moondance
Westlife You raise me up
Wet Wet Wet Love is all around
TV / FILM / SHOWS
Disney’s “UP” Main theme
Fiddler on the Roof To Life!
Frozen Let it go
Game of Thrones Main Theme
Indiana Jones Raiders March
James Bond
Main Theme
We have all the time in the world
Skyfall
From Russia with Love
Jeeves and Wooster Main theme
Jurassic Park Main theme
Love Actually Glasgow Love Theme
Phantom of the Opera
The Music of the Night
All I ask of You
Pink Panther Main theme
Romeo and Juliet Love Theme, by Nino Rota
The Holiday Maestro
The Last of the Mohicans Main Theme
The Lion King Can you feel the love tonight
The Mikado Three little Maids
The Muppets Main theme
The Rose Main Theme
Titanic My Heart Will Go On
Light Music
Albeniz Tango
Anderson Blue Tango
Bacharach Raindrops Keep Fallin’
Beatles
World Without Love
All you need is Love
Good Day Sunshine
Hey Jude
Yesterday
Get Back
Eleanor Rigby
Here there everywhere
Pablo Beltran Sway / Cherry Pink
Bernstein New York, New York
Brown Singin’ in the Rain
Collins Cock Linnet
Denza Funiculi Funicula
Di Capua O Sole Mio
Donaldson Makin’ Whoopee
Ellington It don’t mean a thing
Satin Doll
Fletcher Folk Tune & Fiddle Dance
Gardel Tango – Por Una Cabeza
Gershwin
A Foggy Day
Someone to watch over me
Summertime
Embraceable You
Somebody Loves Me
The Man I Love
Swanee
Glover I do like to be beside the Seaside
Jobin Girl from Ipanema
Joplin The Entertainer
Paragon Rag
Pineapple Rag
Ragtime Dance
Country Club
Maple Leaf Rag
Bethena
Kavas Harry Lime Theme
Kern
Folks Who Live on the Hill
Smoke gets in your eyes
Heyman/Young When I fall in Love
Ben E King Stand by me
Lemare Moonlight and Roses
Mancini Moon River
Nat King Cole
Unforgettable
L.O.V.E.
Kahn/Jones It had to be you
Porter
True Love
Let’s Do It
Anything Goes
Night and Day
Rodgers My Funny Valentine
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez La Cumparsita
Sinatra Fly Me to the Moon
Strayhorn
Chelsea Bridge
Take the A Train
Suessdorf Moonlight in Vermont
Traditional Irish Sherry Dance
Greensleeves
Cock Linnet
Van Heusen Love and Marriage
Harry Warren That’s Amore
Wilson Theme from Fawlty Towers
Withers Lovely Day
Young When I Fall In Love
Traditional Mexican La Bamba
Traditional Irish/Scottish/English Folk Music
Christmas
Deck the Hall
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Fairytale of New York
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
Rockin’ around the Chrtistmas Tree
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is coming to town
We wish you a merry Christmas
Wham – Last Christmas
Winter Wonderland